Persona Magazine To Be Published Again In June

During Atlus’ “Dark Hour TV ~Persona Hour” live stream, they shared a glimpse of Persona 4 Golden: The Animation featuring Marie. They also revealed that the next issue of Persona Magazine will be published on June 12th, 2014.

The Persona Magazine was a monthly magazine published from 2011 to 2012, featuring all things Persona. Atlus revived the magazine for the special occasion of the Persona 5 reveal, and considering that there’s a few months to go before the next issue is published, hopefully it will contain some information on that game.

Persona 5 is slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2014 for PlayStation 3 in Japan. The game will be released in North America in 2015.

Not sure why they didn’t add P4U2 or P4D… But still, they’ll all be in it.

Cazar

Yeah but the focus of the article was on P5. I’m not gonna cry over it but he kind of has a point, it would make a lot more sense to put this article under PS3.

The same goes for if he had used a PQ image instead and only talked about PQ; it wouldn’t make sense to label it under PS3 instead of 3DS. It’s just consistency nitpicking.

Aunna Terrell

It is under the PS3 tag too.

Cazar

At the top of the page, it’s labeled as “NINTENDO 3DS”, that’s what he was talking about.

Aunna Terrell

It’s labeled first (alphabetical order); “Read more stories about Nintendo 3DS & Persona 5 & Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth & PlayStation 3 on Siliconera.”
They just need to make a general media tag for it to fall under Articles, like the Anime tag.

Cazar

The labels are separate from the tags and can have more than one category such as “PS3 / NINTENDO 3DS.” The labels are actually sorting tags and the tags at the bottom are search tags. As a result this article is not in the PS3 section. Actually I guess they’re all sorting tags but for some reason it’s still not in the PS3 section, I guess he just added it later and it hasn’t updated? Nevertheless the label could still have included both tags.

I feel like I’m just going on needlessly about something unimportant now.

Aunna Terrell

Then that would imply that P5 is on “PS3 / NINTENDO 3DS,” bc normally double/triple labeled TABS means the same game on those platform. The easiest solution is just adding a “magazine” or “printed publication” tag for the [ARTICLE] TAB to appear. Problem solved!

Cazar

True. But using the 3DS label was still an odd choice. >>; This comment chain got way too long for something like this lol.

So the game is literally a few months away, and they still gave us NOTHING.

FivePointedTheStar

I think… that I prefer it this way. When the game comes out in Japan, people will invariably spoil the hell out of it, anyway.

Abysswalker90

Just stay away from it until release then?
We know nothing about this game besides it’s general theme and color scheme. If you consider anything beyond that a spoiler, you can just ignore any news about it.
Most of us though are frustrated by the lack of information / trailers / concept art.

하세요

Easier said than done. If he/she has other friends that are into Persona, news will travel fast whether intentional or not. Happened to me and Lightning Returns. I would avoid all topics here about it but Facebook said otherwise. I’m not going to avoid the internet for months to avoid one game’s news, as I doubt anyone would.

Abysswalker90

I’ve been on the internet for years now, and I know next to nothing about Lightning Returns, despite browsing the webs every so often.
Not that I’m a fan or anything, but I’ve managed it, I don’t see how anyone else couldn’t.

하세요

My friends are massive FF fans like I am, so even in person stuff would spill out. Just because you have an easier time doesn’t mean others will.

Hexodious

Atlus probably saved the footage of Persona 5 for E3 2014: Electronic Entertainment Expo. Makes sense to me, but this whole livestream wasn’t even needed just for that anime and with that said, it isn’t really a “new” or “big project” just a sequel.

Kumiko Akimoto

Unless it’s with sony I doubt it.

Thatguy

I really doubt it.

Info would appear at TGS, it seems.

Aunna Terrell

Like the other two, I don’t really see one… But if they did release a trailer before E3, then Atlus USA could surprise us with a dubbed version of the trailer, since we know we’re getting the game.

Kumiko Akimoto

Those keychains were adorable though

SaiyanJedi_Trunks

Wonder if I could pick this up at Kinokuniya? If not, I’ll grab it online.

dknighti

I’m really hoping they do a male and female protagonist for P5 with two different stories that come together towards the end.

I know its a bit much to ask but i think it would be pretty cool to see two different sides of a sure to be amazing story, but I doubt it.

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